Chapter 150 What He Never Lets Himself Do

• Brett's POV
• She was still asleep when the light changed. I lay there longer than I normally would — longer than I ever would. But Riley's weight against my side was its own kind of argument against moving, and so I stayed and did the thing I never let myself do.
• I thought about the future, her here. Lily's voice on the phone. Breakfast made by someone who wants to make it. Riley shifted in her sleep, her hair falling across her face, and I moved it back without thinking, the gesture so easy it alarmed me for half a second before I let it be.